This class takes in those sorts for which it is difficult to find a group where they can be appropriately placed; it gathers in waifs and is a kind of orphan asylum, a place of refuge for the abandoned and unknown.
No varieties in this group are of any great value; the old sorts, Mme. D’Arblay and the Garland, once the best known, are now almost forgotten.
Those which are most grown are Fortune’s Double Yellow, recently sent out under the name Beauty of Glazenwood, and La Saumonee.
Rosa Multiflora
Rosa Multiflora five to seven leaflets is a native of Japan, introduced into England by Thunberg in 1804.It flowers in clusters, and continues for some time in bloom; the flowers are double, small, and of no great beauty.
The shoots have comparatively few thorns, which come in pairs.
De la Grifferaie is in England considered valuable as a stock on which to work the climbing teas and some other roses; we believe it may be good for this; it is not good for anything else.
Grevillia, or Seven Sisters, generally sent out under the latter name, is propagated to considerable extent in this country and is principally called for by tree peddlers, who make large sales of it, by means of exaggerated colored plates, accompanied by untruthful description.
It is as tender as the Tea-scented Noisettes, and is in every way inferior to them.
Rosa Hybrida Scandens and Rosa Multiflora
